Orpheus Descending is written by American famous playwright Tennessee Williams. According to the portrayal of a series marginalized people, this drama presents the solitude in human beings' heart and the estrangem...Orpheus Descending is written by American famous playwright Tennessee Williams. According to the portrayal of a series marginalized people, this drama presents the solitude in human beings' heart and the estrangement in interpersonal relations. This paper tries to analyze the solitude theme in this drama from philosophic aspect and realistic aspect, combining alienation theory and existentialism theory to analyze the reason and the manifestation of solitude.展开更多
Arthur Miller is one of the representatives of American playwrights in 1940 s. Miller's contribution to modern drama lies in making a good expression of the common's tragedy in his drama. Thus he is called as&...Arthur Miller is one of the representatives of American playwrights in 1940 s. Miller's contribution to modern drama lies in making a good expression of the common's tragedy in his drama. Thus he is called as"an American Ibsenian playwright". The Death of a Salesman, Miller's masterwork, presents a society in pursuit of"success". In it, the hero is just a poor man with failures, and his disillusionment of dream ends up with his tragic death. This thesis primarily summarizes the former studies of the Death of a Salesman, and from a novel prospective, focuses on exploring the reasons and results of the hero's loneliness, so as to further the study of the tragic spirit in it.展开更多
Guided by the "ice-berg" theory, this paper briefly analyzes Ernest Hemingway's short story "A Clean, Well-Lighted Place". It concludes that without any information or interference from the aut...Guided by the "ice-berg" theory, this paper briefly analyzes Ernest Hemingway's short story "A Clean, Well-Lighted Place". It concludes that without any information or interference from the author, the story plainly replays a real-life scene. While at the same time, it conveys thought-provoking themes such as the loneliness, nothingness and dignity in life.展开更多
Thomas Hardy's works are considered to have"contained new wine in an old bottle"by critics and reviewers. The"old bottle"refers to his authorial omniscient narrative and his form inheriting fro...Thomas Hardy's works are considered to have"contained new wine in an old bottle"by critics and reviewers. The"old bottle"refers to his authorial omniscient narrative and his form inheriting from the tradition, which is often criticized, especially by those modernists, while"new wine"designates his other sides apart from his old-fashioned writing style, the modernistic themes in his writing. Tess, is a novel that records the transition from conventional to modern. By reading the text and analyzing Tess of the D'Urbervilles under the social context three main modernistic themes can be probed out:Firstly, the spiritual isolation and loneliness in the novel are apparent, and the lack in mutual understanding and sympathy between each other is universal. Besides, the title heroine, she was impossible to fulfill her dreams with various hostile powers set against her, coercing into predicaments one after another, tougher and tougher. Furthermore, another theme popular with later modernists, the alienation, is also embodied in the novel.展开更多
Katherine Mansfield is regarded as a prominent modernist writer of short stories in New Zealand and English literature.Her works manifest the perfect union of modernistic techniques and modernistic themes in reflectin...Katherine Mansfield is regarded as a prominent modernist writer of short stories in New Zealand and English literature.Her works manifest the perfect union of modernistic techniques and modernistic themes in reflecting the spiritual life of modern people.The modernistic themes,including the theme of alienation,the theme of loneliness and disillusionment,and the theme of the paradox of life and death in her representative short storyAt the Bay,demonstrate her great concern about the spiritual world of modern people and her reflection on the modern society.展开更多
Because of The Line of Beauty, Allan Hollinghurst won the 2004 Man Booker Prize for Fiction. In the novel, the protagonist Nick Guest who was born in a middle class family enters into the elite circle. He is an attrac...Because of The Line of Beauty, Allan Hollinghurst won the 2004 Man Booker Prize for Fiction. In the novel, the protagonist Nick Guest who was born in a middle class family enters into the elite circle. He is an attractive young man charged with ambition. Nick is a lonely person, which can be found out in his painful love affairs, the hypocrisy of the Feddens and the isolation of the upper class. All the experience Nick Guest has gone through makes him a tragic gay character. Through the analysis of the point of view, Nick's relationship to the upper class and the ogee curve, this paper tries to reveal Nick's loneliness as a gay character.展开更多
Kafka shows people the image of the gigantic insect according to the description of characteristics of its figure,action,language,food,etc and psychology.It seems to be absurd,but this phenomena discloses the reality ...Kafka shows people the image of the gigantic insect according to the description of characteristics of its figure,action,language,food,etc and psychology.It seems to be absurd,but this phenomena discloses the reality of people's alienation in that society.The protagonist Gregor is similar to the gigantic insect in weakness,loneliness and the tragedy of the two is just an epitome of that times.Gregor,like the gigantic insect,cannot control his own fate and can just be trapped in the disaster caused by the cruel society of intense industrialization,which leads to his tragic end.展开更多
The Scarlet Letter is a tragedy itself.Dimmesdale,the number one hero in the tragedy,is doomed to be a tragic character.He commits adultery with Hester,which should be punished by law.But because of his cowardice and ...The Scarlet Letter is a tragedy itself.Dimmesdale,the number one hero in the tragedy,is doomed to be a tragic character.He commits adultery with Hester,which should be punished by law.But because of his cowardice and selfishness and Hester' protection,he escaped from the punishment of the law.Because he is selfish,cowardly,hypocitical,and lonely,he has hidden his sin for seven years.And because he is kind,he finally stands up actively and takes the responsibility,which belongs to him.At that time,he dies an honest true man.Through the analysis of Dimmesdale' s characteristics,we can know his inner world,and we will be more sympathetic to him.展开更多
Greimas's Semiotic Square is a new approach in analyzing literary works.Based on Sassure and Jacnson's claim on binary opposition,Gereimas extends it to four actants and adds contradictory relationships.By ass...Greimas's Semiotic Square is a new approach in analyzing literary works.Based on Sassure and Jacnson's claim on binary opposition,Gereimas extends it to four actants and adds contradictory relationships.By assign meanings to the four actants,an analysis of the complicated relationship between the roles in a text can be made and a revelation of the theme of the text can be realized.Previous studies of this novel take it as an excellent work revealing loneliness and isolation is thought to be the basic condition of human existence.Other study covers the effects of the unrequited love.Quiet differently,this paper tries to interpret this novel by Greimas'semiotic square and thereby revealing the widely accepted theme of this novel that isolation and loneliness is the final destiny of human being in modern society.展开更多
The fictions of Franz Kafka are full of many ironical allegories.Through the analysis of the great suffering of the family caused by the transformation of the protagonist into a monster in"the metamorphosis"...The fictions of Franz Kafka are full of many ironical allegories.Through the analysis of the great suffering of the family caused by the transformation of the protagonist into a monster in"the metamorphosis"by Franz Kafka,especially on the basis of elaborating the internal artistic characteristics in this story,this paper tends to show that the writer penetratingly described the human feelings of extreme loneliness and solitude in the modern society and he also attacked the society at that time through the technique of his absurd and paradoxical expression.展开更多
Sherwood Anderson is highly skilled in portraying grotesques distorted by the industrialized society. This paper is to unfold the repression and inner struggle of the two typical spinster images in the novel Winesburg...Sherwood Anderson is highly skilled in portraying grotesques distorted by the industrialized society. This paper is to unfold the repression and inner struggle of the two typical spinster images in the novel Winesburg Ohio, the masculine small town, which entraps women with the conventional codes. They achieve economic independence in their earlier years which is their first attempt to overthrow the yoke of man-dominated world. They employ different means to release the deep buried passion and eagerness to love and to be loved so that they can shake off loneliness and repression. However, in the climatic moments, they fail in their seek for self-fulfillment and are doomed to be tossed between traditional women roles and modern awakening.展开更多
文摘Orpheus Descending is written by American famous playwright Tennessee Williams. According to the portrayal of a series marginalized people, this drama presents the solitude in human beings' heart and the estrangement in interpersonal relations. This paper tries to analyze the solitude theme in this drama from philosophic aspect and realistic aspect, combining alienation theory and existentialism theory to analyze the reason and the manifestation of solitude.
文摘Arthur Miller is one of the representatives of American playwrights in 1940 s. Miller's contribution to modern drama lies in making a good expression of the common's tragedy in his drama. Thus he is called as"an American Ibsenian playwright". The Death of a Salesman, Miller's masterwork, presents a society in pursuit of"success". In it, the hero is just a poor man with failures, and his disillusionment of dream ends up with his tragic death. This thesis primarily summarizes the former studies of the Death of a Salesman, and from a novel prospective, focuses on exploring the reasons and results of the hero's loneliness, so as to further the study of the tragic spirit in it.
文摘Guided by the "ice-berg" theory, this paper briefly analyzes Ernest Hemingway's short story "A Clean, Well-Lighted Place". It concludes that without any information or interference from the author, the story plainly replays a real-life scene. While at the same time, it conveys thought-provoking themes such as the loneliness, nothingness and dignity in life.
文摘Thomas Hardy's works are considered to have"contained new wine in an old bottle"by critics and reviewers. The"old bottle"refers to his authorial omniscient narrative and his form inheriting from the tradition, which is often criticized, especially by those modernists, while"new wine"designates his other sides apart from his old-fashioned writing style, the modernistic themes in his writing. Tess, is a novel that records the transition from conventional to modern. By reading the text and analyzing Tess of the D'Urbervilles under the social context three main modernistic themes can be probed out:Firstly, the spiritual isolation and loneliness in the novel are apparent, and the lack in mutual understanding and sympathy between each other is universal. Besides, the title heroine, she was impossible to fulfill her dreams with various hostile powers set against her, coercing into predicaments one after another, tougher and tougher. Furthermore, another theme popular with later modernists, the alienation, is also embodied in the novel.
文摘Katherine Mansfield is regarded as a prominent modernist writer of short stories in New Zealand and English literature.Her works manifest the perfect union of modernistic techniques and modernistic themes in reflecting the spiritual life of modern people.The modernistic themes,including the theme of alienation,the theme of loneliness and disillusionment,and the theme of the paradox of life and death in her representative short storyAt the Bay,demonstrate her great concern about the spiritual world of modern people and her reflection on the modern society.
文摘Because of The Line of Beauty, Allan Hollinghurst won the 2004 Man Booker Prize for Fiction. In the novel, the protagonist Nick Guest who was born in a middle class family enters into the elite circle. He is an attractive young man charged with ambition. Nick is a lonely person, which can be found out in his painful love affairs, the hypocrisy of the Feddens and the isolation of the upper class. All the experience Nick Guest has gone through makes him a tragic gay character. Through the analysis of the point of view, Nick's relationship to the upper class and the ogee curve, this paper tries to reveal Nick's loneliness as a gay character.
文摘Kafka shows people the image of the gigantic insect according to the description of characteristics of its figure,action,language,food,etc and psychology.It seems to be absurd,but this phenomena discloses the reality of people's alienation in that society.The protagonist Gregor is similar to the gigantic insect in weakness,loneliness and the tragedy of the two is just an epitome of that times.Gregor,like the gigantic insect,cannot control his own fate and can just be trapped in the disaster caused by the cruel society of intense industrialization,which leads to his tragic end.
文摘The Scarlet Letter is a tragedy itself.Dimmesdale,the number one hero in the tragedy,is doomed to be a tragic character.He commits adultery with Hester,which should be punished by law.But because of his cowardice and selfishness and Hester' protection,he escaped from the punishment of the law.Because he is selfish,cowardly,hypocitical,and lonely,he has hidden his sin for seven years.And because he is kind,he finally stands up actively and takes the responsibility,which belongs to him.At that time,he dies an honest true man.Through the analysis of Dimmesdale' s characteristics,we can know his inner world,and we will be more sympathetic to him.
文摘Greimas's Semiotic Square is a new approach in analyzing literary works.Based on Sassure and Jacnson's claim on binary opposition,Gereimas extends it to four actants and adds contradictory relationships.By assign meanings to the four actants,an analysis of the complicated relationship between the roles in a text can be made and a revelation of the theme of the text can be realized.Previous studies of this novel take it as an excellent work revealing loneliness and isolation is thought to be the basic condition of human existence.Other study covers the effects of the unrequited love.Quiet differently,this paper tries to interpret this novel by Greimas'semiotic square and thereby revealing the widely accepted theme of this novel that isolation and loneliness is the final destiny of human being in modern society.
文摘The fictions of Franz Kafka are full of many ironical allegories.Through the analysis of the great suffering of the family caused by the transformation of the protagonist into a monster in"the metamorphosis"by Franz Kafka,especially on the basis of elaborating the internal artistic characteristics in this story,this paper tends to show that the writer penetratingly described the human feelings of extreme loneliness and solitude in the modern society and he also attacked the society at that time through the technique of his absurd and paradoxical expression.
文摘Sherwood Anderson is highly skilled in portraying grotesques distorted by the industrialized society. This paper is to unfold the repression and inner struggle of the two typical spinster images in the novel Winesburg Ohio, the masculine small town, which entraps women with the conventional codes. They achieve economic independence in their earlier years which is their first attempt to overthrow the yoke of man-dominated world. They employ different means to release the deep buried passion and eagerness to love and to be loved so that they can shake off loneliness and repression. However, in the climatic moments, they fail in their seek for self-fulfillment and are doomed to be tossed between traditional women roles and modern awakening.
